Hi Derek, Take a look at http://www.zope.com/Demos/ it has some flash demos of how the CMF can be used and it's purposes. Also, http://www.zopezen.org also runs the CMF. It's a very cool product that has workflows that can be customized to suit your needs. Cheers, Todd On 14 Jan 2002, Derek Simkowiak wrote:
I see that Zope has these cool things:
o User Management and Permissions control o Version Control o Undo o Web-based GUI for site administration o ZPT and WebDAV support for working with things like SiteBuilder, FrontPage, etc. under OS X and WinXP
These are all hallmarks of a great Content Management System. I can easily see how I'd divide up my clients' corporate website using Zope.
So my question is: WTF is "CMF" for? What problem does it try to solve? How is it different from, well, plain old Zope?
I've read the "Introduction" at
http://cmf.zope.org/doc/introduction.txt
But it doesn't answer my question. (Honestly, it provides practically no information whatsoever and reads like a marketing document. Sorry to whoever wrote it.) It refers to "services" with names like "SiteDesignServices" and "IntegrationServices", but I have to clue what those are or where to find more information about them, or why I'd want them.
I've also read [much of]
http://cmf.zope.org/CMF/Members/beehive/ZWACK- Chap5.html
...which shows me that CMF hides the Zope admin interface to endusers. Is that the whole point of CMF? Also, from this I see that CMF provides basic "types" such as "File", "Document", "Image", and "Folder". Are these different from Zope's types of the same name? Or are they the same thing?
I have not yet d/led and installed--that's my next step. But I'd like to have a document, case study, or demo that I can show my client before I put more billable hours into this.
Please advise.
Thank You, Derek Simkowiak
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